HD Ready, Full HD, Freeview, LCD, plasma
if youre a bit confused by all of these terms and dont know how to choose your new TV, then dont worry, digitalversus.com will explain it all.
Choosing from amongst all the TVs available on the market today is no easy matter, especially for technophobes. If you just have a regular old cathode-ray-tube television and aren’t too hot on the latest developments, then we’ll take you through the key questions that you should be asking, including:
The advent of digital terrestrial television means that, in many territories, all televisions must include a digital decoder, with a view to eventually turning off analog signals. The EU has suggested that analog transmission disappears from member states from 2012, and in the US the FCC has set a date of February 17, 2009 for exclusively digital broadcasting.
Our ongoing product surveys for televisions are divided up into four sizes of screen, based on the diagonal measurement from one corner of the screen to another. We continuously test the following size screens in our labs:
> Ongoing survey: TVs up 29" (below 74 cm)
> Ongoing survey: TVs from 30" to 39" (76 to 99 cm)
> Ongoing survey: TVs from 40" to 49" (102 to 124 cm)
> Ongoing survey: 50" and bigger TVs (127 cm and beyond)
- Should you go for a screen with an LCD panel or plasma?
- Will a HD ready TV be OK? And is it the same as a Full HD screen?
- Do you need a digital tuner that's ready for HD?
- How big do you need your TV to be?
The advent of digital terrestrial television means that, in many territories, all televisions must include a digital decoder, with a view to eventually turning off analog signals. The EU has suggested that analog transmission disappears from member states from 2012, and in the US the FCC has set a date of February 17, 2009 for exclusively digital broadcasting.
Our ongoing product surveys for televisions are divided up into four sizes of screen, based on the diagonal measurement from one corner of the screen to another. We continuously test the following size screens in our labs:
> Ongoing survey: TVs up 29" (below 74 cm)
> Ongoing survey: TVs from 30" to 39" (76 to 99 cm)
> Ongoing survey: TVs from 40" to 49" (102 to 124 cm)
> Ongoing survey: 50" and bigger TVs (127 cm and beyond)
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